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Alexander Michie (Lt Col)
Dr Alexander Michie, from Durris on Deeside, was the first British medical officer to enter the infamous camp in April 1945 and the scenes of squalor, death and degradation he witnessed rendered him mute on what he saw there for many years. 12,106 total views
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Walter Stott
Huddersfield soldier Walter Stott was one of the first soldiers to enter Belsen Concentration Camp. His testimony was part of an act of commemoration in Dewsbury on April 15th, 2005 – 60 years after the camp was surrendered to the British. 11,310 total views
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E W Blackbell (113th LAA)
Blackbell, E W (Capt.) (113 LAA) Birth 17 Aug 1912 Sunderland, Durham, England Death 1981 Sunderland, Durham, England 9,931 total views
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Auschwitz and Holocaust Memorial Day
Auschwitz Memorial bring together the most important facts about the last stage of the operation of this German Nazi camp. 10,584 total views
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Thomas Gibson – Medical Student
During early April a notice appeared in the Medical Schools of the London hospitals asking for twelve volunteers from each to make up a party of a hundred students, whose object would be to treat starvation cases in Holland under the auspices of the Red Cross. 11,787 total views
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George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 12,743 total views
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William Dillon Hughes
William Dillon Hughes (son of Richard Hughes and Hannah Barton) was born 23 December 1900 in Ardglass, County Down, Ireland, and died 13 December 1999. 10,184 total views
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Eric Trott – RAMC
Social worker Andy Strowman would like the council to honour this ‘humble, kind and gentle man’ with a memorial plaque in Edward Street where he lived. 7,178 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – Motherwell Times
Motherwell and Wishaw ‘s MP had her own thoughts as she signed a book of commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day. 10,697 total views
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William Aubrey Southwood
William Aubrey Southwood. 1st December 1919 – 20th June 2007. Army No. 3966329 9,324 total views
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